The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Some very erroneous statements are circulated respect ing the time at which Lord Durham announced his inten tion to take his departure from Canada. In the last dispatch received from him, which is dated the 29th of September, be states that it would not be possible for him to quit Canada for more than a month ; that be should then proceed by way of the United States, in order to exert himself to perfect the good understanding between the people of the two countries, in which so much progress had been already made by him ; and that be expected to be in London in the month of January. It is quite impossible that he could have left Quebec on the loth of October, one of the dates assigned for his departure. Mendacious and unprincipled as the Times is, the effort of yesterday to back out of the article of Friday last is a piece of impu dent mendacity beyond the usual flights even of that paper. We feel an indescribable repugnance to fol low this unprincipled journal through its mazes of falsehood and inconsistency, because the disgrace of a paper extensively circulated like the Tinges, and identified with the Tory party, is in some sort national, and affords but too much justification for the low opinions of the English press entertained by foreigners. Thn duty we now discharge is necessary ; but it is one from which little satisfaction can be derived. It is unnecessary to drag our readers through the long articles from which we made copious extracts on Saturday last. We may, however, so far refresh their me- mory as to repeat the following sentences : " In the position wherein Lord Durham now finds himself —under a dark cloud of presumptive error, and in some sort self-punished for faults of which others, by the difficulties with which they surrounded him, may, for anything we know to the contrary, have been the real cause—justice and honour, and every right feeling, preclude us from saying a single word in the shape of censure or disparagement against him. We have never wished ill to that Noble Lord, nor sus pected him of an indifference to right or wrong, when both lay plainly before him. We shall, therefore, on this occa sion, and until Lord: Durham has an opportunity of meeting face to face in Parliament the spiteful enemy tsho led the assault upon his character, and the false friends who sneaked away, leaving an absent man, who relied upon their fidelity, exposed to a flight of envenomed arrows from behind —until that day of triumph comes we shall refrain from the utterance of any opinion upon the public measures, apart from the general appointments, proposed or executed by the Noble Lord, seeing that he has never yet been heard in explanation of them." After telling us that the Conservatives, in support ing Lord Brougham, "acted in no spirit of hostility towards Lord Durham," asd that " there was not breathed a syllable indicative of anxiety to thwart, perplex, or ortify the Noble Earl, or to cast a shade of suspicion upon his motives," it proceeded to say, " We have studiously abstained throughout from expressing so much as the hint of an opinion upon the political merits of Lord Durham's Canadian Administration. We know too little of its details ; but we have in the above mentioned data ground more than sufficient for asserting that never was public man more scurvily or basely deserted by those who were fledged, by obligations which cannot be broken without ruin to those who disregard them, to have made a rampart of their own bodies round their friend and delegate, and to have identified their political existence with his." Now, we showed on Saturday, and could have adduced numerous instances in addition to what we gave, that so far from having cautiously abstained from expressing so much as the hint of an opinion upon the merits of Lord Durham's Canadian Administration, the Times had pur sued without intermission a warfare of vituperation against his Lordship from the moment of his departure from our shores. On the 9th of August he is represented to have kindled destructive flames in Canada by a free use of pot lical combustibles ; the Special Council was described as neither in accordance with the spirit of the statute under which it has been constituted, nor at all likely to command the confidence of the Canadian public ; and he is reproached with having superseded an ancient and constitutional fore: of Government by a high-handed despotism. On the 11th of August " All Lord Brougham's statements, illustrative of the rash and reckless character of the Durham policy are, we have reason to believe, strictly true ; and Lord Brougham's Bill is termed " a Bill for putting a stop to the mischiefs which Lord Durham is threatening to perpetrate." Improving still on this, on the 20th of August the Times exclaims, Poor Lord Durham. Perseverance in our intended strictures on what may doubtless be deemed the first and last acts of his Lordship's viceroyship is now rendered unnecessary. A general feeling of indignation has been ex cited by that nobleman's illegal and despotic ordinances." It was charitable in the Times to abstain from further stric tures when it concluded Lord Durham was politically de stroyed!—that he must succumb to the general feeling of indignation against his illegal and despotic ordinances. Farther than this it could not well go. The next step would have been mangling the dead body. But that which on the 20th of August was so illegal and despotic as to have excited one general feeling of indignation, and ren dered the continuance of Lord Durham's 'viceroyship im possible, is yesterday reserved for further consideration. The Times pronounced sentence of political death on Lord Durham on the 20th of August on account of the ordi nances ; but it reserves its opinion on them on the 22d of October : " If the course pursued by the Noble Earl," says the Times yesterday, " was dictated by the purest motives,' which we are no less convinced of than was Lord John Russell, and forced upon the Noble Earl by necessity, as affirmed by Lord Glenelg, but upon which point we beg leave to reserve our opinion." But Lord Glenelg affirmed all that before you passed sentence of political death on Lord Durham. This is political justice with a vengeance. And how does the Times extricate itself from this maze of falsehood and in consistency ? Here is the effort, and a precious one it is : " Now, it must be obvious to every rational being that when we talked of having abstained throughout,' we meant throughout' the preceding article, considering Lord Durham as a public functionary on his trial,' and whose defence was still to come.' Yet with the dirty, ungentlemanly trickiness and low dishonesty which belongs to the Whig Press, they resort for proofs of our having misrepresented our own actions, and of our having done that which we professed to have ' abstained' from doing, to the files of this Journal for last August, when we, in common with the two Houses of Parliament, and with the whole Press on both sides of the question, were engaged, avowedly, and repeatedly, and we will add, unavoidably, in a free discussion of what had then taken place in the pro vinces of North America I It is a humiliation to have aught to do, even as adversaries, with raffish practitioners like these, and so we at present leave them." So that the abstinence from expressing so much as the hint of an opinion upon the political merits of Lord Dur ham's Canadian administration was intended to apply only to that particular article ! Lord Durham was on his trial, and his defence was still to come ; and could the Times for a moment be suspected of condemning a man whose de fence was still to comet But what a pity that the pure Times of the 22d October should be obliged to drag about with the rotten carcase of the Times of the 20th August. Pray, good Times, did you know any more of the merits of Lord Durham's administration on the 20th August, when you declared it had excited a general feel ing of indignation—when you pronounced his viceroyalty at an end—than you know now on the 22d October? It may be well now to abstain from condemning a man unheard of whose acts you say you know nothing ; but it would have been not less proper to have abstained from condemning him on account of the very same measures on the 26th of August last. You declare Lord Brougham a spiteful enemy, who shoots envenomed arrows from behind, in October ; but all the statements of this same Lord Brougham so characterised now were strictly true in August, when the Durham policy was pronounced, on the faith of this true and disinterested witness, rash and reck less! But why waste more words on such wretched floundering. We have always regretted the course pur sued by Ministers, because we considered Lord Durham's conduct not only strictly justifiable, but the wisest and best which could have been adopted. But for the Tories to whisper one syllable of dissatisfaction with Ministers is the height of effrontery. They and their precious organ the Times condemned the ordinances as tyrannical—they chuckled at the idea of having excited a general feeling of indignation against that Noble Earl in his absence —they welcomed every rumour injurious to the No ble Earl—in their eagerness to ruin him they viola ted every principle of the monarchy, making the House of Lords an Executive Committee for con ducting the government of Canada—they hailed the Bill of Lord Brougham as the termination of Lord Durham's viceroy alty. If they declare they really attached no importance to all this, while yet Lordthey were seeking to kindle a storm of indignation . against Durham, they only represent themselves in a still blacker light to the regret what has happened, it is country. Whoever . m . ay t We conclude these observa tions them to remain mien • following extract from the Scotsman, which tions with the . conveys the opinion of every honest man in the three kingdoms : " The fiendish malignity of factio n has hen th h u e s h a a c d co th m e p f l a is ir h e e s d t its purpose ; Lord Durham, at the time w prosp ec t of ac hi ev i ng the great object of his mission, issi ß o r n i , ta h i a n s couliaban doned his t as k— a tas k w hich no other man are still undertake w ith th e same c hance of success There many malcontent s i n b o th Canadas ; and if th event stateve twill con fusion ne cessarily create, should encourage them to new outbreaks, and plunge the country a second time into the flames of civil war, such wilt only be the natural and legitimate consequences the course adopted by the authors of the Indemnity Bill— consequences which it is no b reac h o f c h ar ity to say that they foresaw, and were willing to incur, for the sake of embar rassing or overturning the liberal government. The dis memberment of the empire is coolly contemplated, rebel lion and bloodshed are welcomed, if they can only be converted into thorns in the side of the Ministry. The annals of faction furnish few examples of such unqualified profligacy." —Morning Chronicle. The Irish intelligence published yesterday contained a , statement in the following; words, viz.:--" The county of Meath has been convened by the Sheriff, Mr. Corbelly, for the 24th inst., to petition for the total extinction of tithes, in substance as well as in name, or their appro priation to national purposes, and for a just measure of Municipal Reform in Ireland." The requisition for the meeting is signed by " the Marquis of Headfort, Lord- Lieutenant of the county of Cavan, Lord Cloncurry, Sir William Somerville, M.P., &c." Is this so? Can it be so ? Here is a public meeting convened to bring about by that expedient of the science of agitation which consists of petitioning after the fashion of the musket-pointing beg german in Gil Blas—to bring about, we say, " the total extinction of tithes, both in name and substance." Now, tithes constitute the only provision for the mainte nance of the Established clergy within these realms. The subsistence of the clergy forms the only visible and tangible attribute of the Church whereon legislation can effectually operate. It is the whole, in fact, of the temporal Church of England, in every part of the United Kingdom. To extinguish tithes is to sweep away the Church Establishment altogether. The first name signed to this requisition for the entire overthrow of the Protestant Church Establishment is, we find, that of the Marquis of Headfort. And what is the Marquis of Head fort ? He is, in the first place, a member of the Irish Privy Council, who, in order to become a Ptivy Councillor, must have taken " the test for the security of the Pro testant Established C'turch," and who has also taken an oath " to advise the King (or Queen) according to the best of his cunning and discretion ; to advise for the King's (or Queen's) honour ;" " to observe, keep, and do all that a good and true Counsellor ought to do to his Sove reign Lord (or Lady.)" The Marquis of Headfort, then, having sworn to cherish the " security of the Protestant Church," fulfils that oath by calling to gether an assembly of those who are sworn enemies of the Church—areenest them, that anythin,garian de magogue and rival mountebank to O'Connell, the no torious Mr. Sharman Crawford—to petition the Legisla ture—and the Queen, as a portion of it—to subvert the whole of the Church Establishment which is subvertible by human means—to vcit, the maintenance of its ministers. So, such is the manner in which this Privy Councillor ac quits himself of the oath to advise the Queen for " the Queen's honour"—na nely, by petitioning her Majesty to violate her own coronation oath, and to forfeit her crown, by concurring in the overthrow of the Protestant Church —of all that branch of it which is accessible to the caprices and abuses of human power ; for, thank the Divine Being who watches over us, the doctrines of Protestantism, and the sacred spirit which iespircs and upholds them, are be yond the jurisdiction of perjured Councillors, or ill-advised and unheeding Monarchs. But what more is the Marquis of Headfort, besides a Privy Councillor, who, in so far as he may lend himself to undermine the Established Pro testant Church, will to that extent be a sacrilegious perjurer? This seine Lord is a Lord Lieutenant of the county of Cavan, that county of Ireland which we be lieve contains nearly the largest proportion of Pro testants in the whole isl ma. The Lord Lieutenant of a county is the head of the executive government within that county, and is bound by an oath identical in spirit with that which binds the conscience of the Sovereign, to maintain, in its integrity and in its temporal interests, the Protestant Established Church. He is an officer re movable at the will and pleasure of the Sovereign for any act derogatory to his official character as the Sovereign's delegate and represent Ai% e. The confidential advisers of the Queen are responsible that such an officer shall not violate his oath, or shall be visited with the most significant marks of the Royal displeasure in case of such violation. But Lord Headfort is somethieg more than a Privy Coun cillor and Lord Lieutenant of an Irish county. He dis charges functions which bring him into a closer proximity to the Sovereign. He occupies a high station in her Ma jesty's household, and forms a member of that circle which is admitted into the daily presence of the Queen, to asso ciate with her, to have the honour of conversing with her, and of conveying his sentiments directly to her Majesty's ear. Will her Majesty, with a full remembrance of her own Coronation oath, and of the duties which it enjoins, as well as those which it implies—will her Majesty, with a full knowledge of the oaths and tests which are taken by every Privy Councillor—will her Majesty, when she comes to learn the enterprise which her Lord of the Bedchamber has engaged in, and the accomplices with whom he has arrayed himself, for the temporal ruin of that Establishment of which she is herself the temporal head— will, we repeat, her Majesty Queen Victoria, granddaughter of George 111., and successor of the great Protestant Queen Elizabeth, deem it consistent with her oath, or with the principles which raised the House of Brunswick to the throne of these realms, to countenance in one of her own household officers a flagrant indecency, an outrageous in sult, to her imperial crown and person, such as that which in this article we have with so much pais and shame been denouncing ? If Lord Headfort be not dismissed at once from the Privy Council, the Lord-Lieutenancy, and the Royal household, then will every honest Protestant in the empire cry out that Popish treason has scaled the Palace walls, or burst the gates, and that it riots in the same chamber with the desecrated royalty of Great Britain. It was a lamentable and disgraceful thing to hear Lord Howick, of the Cabinet Cou n cil o f Q ueen Victoria, revenge himself for his incapacity to re sist the Irish Church Bill, stripped of that appro priation clause which had lifted him into office, by threaten ihg the existence of the Protestant Church. It was an awful thing that such a Minister, for such an outrage, should retain his power of " advising" the Sovereign for a single hour. It might be saddening to a friend of civil and reli gious freedom, that it is Popery which retains Lord Mel bourne and Lord John Russell as Ministers of a Sovereign who owes her Crown to a solemn adjuration of Popery— who knows, indeed, what dignities may be, even while we write, in store for that titled offender, the menial servant of a Protestant Queen, who agitates Ireland for the " extinc tion of tithe in name and substance ?" It was to services like his, though less formally avowed, that a viceregal Earl was indebted for his Marquisate a few months since. What, then, should stand between a bedchamber Marquis and his Dukedom ? A topsy-turvy Government, for aught we can tell, may have its own principles or punctilios of iniquity, shapeless and bottomless though they seem to our apprehen sions. In such a case it is not the worst men who have least to hope. Requisitions for the downfall of religious worship are acts of grace, where the ruling force is no better than a spiritual anarchy.—Times. A Ministerial Paper, which we quoted on Saturday as indulging a fond and trembling hope that, after all, Lord Durham may, perhaps, not resign the government of Canada, still appears to cling to that last resource of com fort, under the heavy visitation of his Lordship's displeasure with the Whig-Radical Cabinet. This Ministerial Journal —doubtless after very much meditation upon the subject— has done us the honour (but spared its blushes the acknow ledgment of the same) of adopting the view which we took on Friday last of Lord Durham's position. We then said that, " if Lord Durham had reason to believe that his con tinued presence in Canada and superintendence of its af fairs were very important to the security of that province, and to its faithful and useful adherence to the mother country, and that this would be the case notwithstanding the passing of the Indemnity Bill, then no feeling of per sonal vexation, however sharp it might be, should have caused him at such a time to abandon his Go vernment." The Ministerial Journal of yesterday morning, contemplating the resignation of his Lord ship, not as a decided thing and a thing past, but a step yet to be determined upon, argues that his Lordship's resignation can alone admit of justification on the ground that his authority had been weakened. The supposition that he might have been induced to resign by personal feelings, must, it is said, be put aside, because personal feelings would not justify the abandonment of his trust. So far so good —at least we are bound to admit that it is so, since within but a few days it fell to our lot to say upon the very same subject pretty nearly the same thing. But the Ministerialust be a " Journal, although it says that the feelings itsown judgment, as m a y b e seen b y th e supposition o f L or d Durham having been influenced by per sonal put aside," does not appear . to followfollowing extract : " The strongest minded men are not proof against the feel ings of despondency caused by disastrous i n t e lli gence , a nd it is not detracti ng f rom t i o merits or Lord Durham, or impugn ing the judgment of our correspondents, to suppose that they over -rated the effect which the disallowing ordinances might ultimately have in weakening his Lordship' s authority. His Lordship might th er ef , :re be j us tifi e d i n judging, at the time Ihe answered the deputies from the provinces, and when he subsequently sent off his despatch to the Colonial Office, i that his authority had keen so much weakened that it would be 1 inadequate to the emergency which called for its existence ; and he might not be justified in abiding by the determination which that judgment had led him to declare, if the peeple of Canada rally round him with such enthusiasm as to place be yond a doubt that his authority cannot possibly be higher than it is now." All this pleading i ppears to amount to this —that though Lord Durham allowed his personal feelings (his " feelings of despondency") to actuate him so far as to lead to the announcement of his resignation ; yet when those feelings had so far subsided as to permit him to think calmly over the various " untoward events" which might attend the abandonment of his Government, he might very well change his mind, and determine in the second place not to resign, as he had determined in the first place to do just the contrary. We rather doubt that this course of the Noble Lord's reflections, however agreeable it might be found to some persons who hold places in this country, would much redound to the reputation of the N o bl e L ord for temper and caution as a public servant. As public opinion already stands, his Lordship h.is not so much reputatio n of thi s kiqd to rest urn chat L , .. uld lightlyhazard any iinrtio n of it. But our Ministerial guide, upon these important matters, is somewhat obscure, for while he describes the in: THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1838. telligence of what had been done here, respecting Lord Durham's ordinances as " disastrous," he seems to indi cate, in another passage, that nothing could have been more favourable for his Lordship than the event of which the " intelligence" was " disastrous." He says— " When it is found that the effect of the disallowance of the ordinances has been to silence all opposition to his Govern- ' ment, and to call forth an unanimous burst of enthusiastic de votion towards him, no one will say that the question does not assume a new shape." Certainly Lord Durham ought to have no quarrel with an act of his friends the Ministers, which has led to such results as these, but why then call the disallowance of the ordinances " disastrous ?" Why abuse with such conti nual torrents of virulent reproach the House of Lords for taking part in this very thing which has " silenced all op position to Lord Durham's Government ?" Why say that the blame of every thing unfortunate which may happen in Canada must rest upon those who interfered with Lord Durham, if it be true that this interference produced an unanimous burst of enthusiastic devotion to his Lordship ? Why, 0 ! why, should the disallowance of the ordinances, which produced effects so delectable, be afterwards referred to as an act for which even our most admirable Whig- Rd , dieal Ministers deserve some blame ? How is the follow ing to be explained ? " But while we refuse to Lord Durham the liberty to act on mere personal feelings, we are far from justifying the dis allowing the ordinances. We have always been opposed to the course which Ministers were led" (driven would, we think, be a better word) " to adopt." No doubt it is a serious thing for Lord Durham that the editor of a London Ministerial Paper refuses him the liberty to act on mere personal feelings ; but it may be, perhaps, expected by the editor that his Lordship will for give this refusal, in consideration of the negative censure pissed upon Ministers for doing that which (teste the same editor) has silenced all opposition to his Lordship's Govern ment, and called forth an unanimous burst of approbation towards his Lordship's noble self! Lord Durham must of course be further and very exceedingly gratified to learn, that whatever errors he may have fallen into have been shared by those illustrious personages the correspondents of the Ministerial Newspaper : It opinion that his authority had been so weakened as to render , it impossible for him to discharge with advantage the duties of the trust confided to him was shared by more than one of our well-informed correspondents in that quarter. But neither Lord Durham nor our correspondents are infallible. His Lordship might be justified in anticipating, from the disallow ance of the ordinances, an effect in the way of weakening his authority which experience may not confirm." All this is very agreeable. Lord Durham cannot take offence at not being considered infallible, since the same amount of distrust is extended to the newspaper corre spondents, who so meritoriously contribute to the columns of our Ministerial Contemporary. We hope our readers may have derived some amusement from these extracts ; the moral of the tale is that—if not the Ministers them ' selves—the Ministerial Journal is perplexed in the extreme, ' and, not knoxing well what line to adhere to, takes several lines which run contrary ways. It appears also that it is still considered expedient to keep up the hope that Lord ' Durham may think better of his first determination, pocket : his affronts, and remain in Canada.—Morning Post. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—A little comedy called Jealousy followed the Tempest on Saturday night. It is made up of very slight materials, turning on the cross pur poses of Colonel and Mrs. Neville ( Vandenhoff and Mrs. Warner), and Mr. and Mrs. Hartley ( Anderson and Miss Charles). Colonel Neville is a jealous husband, and Mrs. Hartley a jealous wife. Mrs. Neville has been secretly mar ried prior to her marriage with the Colonel, and has a son, who is protected by that gentleman as an orphan. The son is involved in an affair of honour, and Mrs. Neville pays a clandestine visit to Mr. Hartley, to implore him to hasten to the appointed place of meeting, and prevent ill consequen ces. This meeting leads to a series of embarrassments ; the Colonel arrrives, and Mrs. Neville bides behind a curtain, then, after the retirement of the Colonel, his wife comes in contact with Mrs. Hartley, and a number of situations occur into which it is needless to enter, as they are addressed to the eye, and it is on the rapidity with which they arc managed that their effect depends. The result of all is, that the Co lonel and Mrs. Hartley believe Mrs. Neville and Hartley to be guilty, and matters are not cleared up till Mrs. Nevill's son is acknowledged, when the Colonel pardons his wife for having kept the affair secret. The previous confusion is considerably increased by the tattle of Sir Harry Effingham, a coxcombical busybody, acted by Meadows, who is in love with Mrs. Hartley, who knows a little of everything, so as to produce a great deal of mischief, but whose character and position with the rest of the personages is not defined with sufficient clearness. The first act of the drama went off very well; the situations fol lowed each other smartly, and though there was nothing in the dialogue, there was an agreeable bustle which kept the audience in good humour. However, at the end of the second and last act, when Neville commanded the newly acknow ledged son to throw himself into the arms of his mother, a violent hissing commenced, which lasted after the fall of the curtain. Anderson came forward to announce the piece for repetition, but there was so much disapprobation that he re tired, notwithstand the heartiness of the applause of approving parties. The latter steadily continued their plaudits for some five minutes, when Vandenhoff came forward, and in spite of the resistance of the " noes" succeeded in announcing a repe tition on Tuesday. The piece was very well acted, and was one of those trifles which possess neither originality nor in terest, but amuse an audience for the time by their bustle, and leave no lasting impression. Between ten and eleven o'clock yesterday morning, as a little boy named Henry Horrocks, whose mother resides in Alfred's-place, Fenchurch-street, was going up the court to his mother's house, he was accidently knocked down with great violence by another boy, who was running in an opposite direction. His right thigh was found to be broken, and he was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital. An inquest was held yesterday at St. George's Hospital on the body of Mrs. Green, aged 23, whose death was occasioned by severe burning, her clothes having acciden tally taken fire. Deceased had lived at Turnham Green, and it is supposed that, being subject to periodical fainting fits, her clothes had become ignited during one of these visitations. Verdict, " Accidental Death." The Chinese have literally in every sense a Billings gate of their of their own. Mr. Downing, in his recent work, informs us that, on bearing a dreadful altercation, he asked his interpreter the cause, who informed him, in broken English, " They want shee too muc h ee d o ll ar f or t h e fi s h ee ." At the Town H a ll yester d ay an e ld er l y man of the name of Wingat e was b roug h t b e f ore M r. Ald erman Kelly, charged with h av i ng i n fli cted a d angerous woun d on t h e head of a person of th e name o f W h i te. The part i es, i t ap p e ared, happened to meet at a public-house called the Old Justice , in Mint -street on Saturday night, when some remarks were made by complainant as to the honesty of the prisoner. With out saying a word the prisoner proceeded to the bar, a nd, taking u p a quart pot, returned to tbe room, and struck the prosecutor a violent blow over the left eye, which completely divided the main artery. Before the wound could be strapp ed up White l os t u p war d s of two quarts of blood. He was then conveyed to Guy's Hospital, when the surgeon declared that had the wound been half-an-inch lower instant death would have ensued. The prisoner, in his defence, said he was sorry for what he had done. Mr. Alderman Kelly o b ser ved, that had death ensue d h e s h ou l d have felt i t to be his duty to com mit him for murder ; but, as there was no medical certificate sent, be should remand him until the prosecutor was pro nounced out of danger. EXTRAORDINARY FIRE.—On Saturday last another fire broke out at Glynn House, the mansion of Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart. ' M. P., near Bodmin, under the follow ing stran ge and singular circumstances. It appears that on that day Sir Hussey was expected home, and the servants had, therefore, lit a fire in the stove to heat the apartments with hot water, which was conveyed through the house in pipes, pass ing through the lobby to a coil in the corner which warms the great staircase. The pipe in the lobby got red hot, and set tire to the flooring which passed over it ; but, fortunately, as it broke out in the day time, it was soon discovered, and the flooring was being torn up when the gallant General arrived. The fire was soon got under, and no great injury has been done ; but had it occured much later, the whole premises must have been destroyed. It is said by those connected with the house that there was no stoppage in the circulation of the water; but how pipes can become red hot that have in them a free circulation of water, is beyond our comprehension. It is a singular fact that on the last occasion that Sir Hussey visited his residence, the farm buildings narrowly escaped being burnt down, and Glynn House has once before been destroyed by fire. West Briton. An inquest was held on Saturday evening on the body of a widow lady, named Eastwicke, late of Dorset-place, Dorset-square, who committed suicide by throwing herself from an attic window. Deceased's husband had died about a year and a half ago, and this occurrence had for some time utterly deprived her of reason. Ever since she had been affected with a nervous disorder. She had been attended to with much care by an only daughter, and had been left but for a minute or two, when she threw herself from the window. Verdict—" Temporary Derangement." RIGHT OF WAY OVER PRIMROSE -HILL.—In the Marylebonc Vestry, on Saturday, Mr. Kensett stated that he had received a great number of communications from indi viduals upon the subject of the wall now in course of erection on the estate of Colonel Eyre, which would prevent all access from the avenue road to Primrose-hill. Many of these letters were from people far advanced in years, bearing testimony to the existence of the path in question by having passed over it upwards of 40 years ago, and expressing their willingness to come forward and prove their assertion. He would sugge s t that the surveyor be directed to assist the Committee by col lecting all possible information from the localities which sur rounded Primrose-hill. This was agreed to. — The Hope steam tug, which has seen many years of service on the River Tyne, having been the fourth steam boat which was built, and, from her great age, was commonly called the Old Hope, foundered at sea, during the heavy gale of wind on Thursday. Being used as a towing vessel, she had proceeded out of Shields in the morning on the " look nut ;" and when the gale came on it was found impossible to regain the harbour. After beating about at sea for some lionr;, an attumpt wls made to run her into Sunderland, but ate tilled with water and went down within a ,port distance of that port. The crew, we are happy to say, were saved in a boat which put off from Sunderland.— Glasgow Courier. THE WOOL MARKET. LEEDS. —No material alteration has taken place in our cloth-hall since our last report ;as the season gets more ad vanced it has always had the effect of slackening the demand. A fair stroke of business, however, is now doing, and prices, both in wool and cloth, remain firm. BRADFORD. —There has been during the week very few sales in the wool market, but prices have not varied since our last. The staplers, however, think that prices are at the worst, and evince no great desire to sell at the present prices. There was a good demand for yarn at old prices. This de mand, as we stated last week, is not for the Bradford trade, but for other branches of manufacture. The piece-market was again very dull, we think more so than last week. The manufacturers are in an awkward position when the price of yarn and that of manufactured goods is considered ; they can not sell with a remunerating profit, and they dare not, with the present prospect before them, accumulate stock. . _ 'MANCHESTER. —There was rather more demand for yarn yesterday, the very low prices having caused some speculative inquiry ; but no advance of price was obtained. The facto ries mentioned in our last all commenced working short time on Monday. There is still a fair demand for goods. The country trade is in a very sound and healthy condition, and some tolerably large orders are understood to have been re ceived by the late packets from the United States. LEICESTER. —The demand for the home trade is pretty pctive. There is also a con iderable business doing in the fancy trade, particularly in the new article of ladies' worsted shawls. Yarn remains without alteration in price. Wool is firm, with more doing in lower sorts of wethers. Skin-comb ing is very scarce, and comparatively dear. Farmer's lots range from 365. to 395. and 40s. ROCHDALE.—In the flannel-market we have had a fair ave rage to-day, and the demand for low good continues brisk. Prices have undergone little change ; perhaps in some in stances a small advance may have been obtained, but it has not been general. Wool remains steady, and prices firm. IMPROVED PRISON DISCIPLINE.-At the quarter sessions for the eastern division of Sussex last week, a conver sation took place relative to a recommendation of the previous sessions, that every prisoner would be allowed to wear a linen mask, to be provided by the gaoler. Mr. Donovan opposed the plan, which he thought would take away from punishment one of its greatest stings, and throw over the proceedings an air of ridicule, which would turn the whole into burlesque. Mr. Hazlewood was in favour of the mask ; for many a pri soner who had formed a determination to amend his life would, if not allowed to cover his face, be liable to be recognised by some of his fellow-prisoners, in consequence of which his reso lution of amendment would be rendered nugatory. Finally it was agreed that application should be made to the Home So cretary, requesting that he would grant permission to use the linen mask in the gaol.—Sussex Paper. EAST CUMBERLAND REGISTER.—The Carlisle (Conservative) Patriot states that the Conservatives have gained 54, and that there is but little doubt that East Cum berland will return two Tories next Summer. THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER.—We are gratified to recognize no desire to stifle the sentiments of the Chartists ; most of the newspapers in the country, we see, either have al ready opened, or are about opening, their columns for the re ception of the People's Charter. The document, as our readers know, is intituled " An Act to provide for the just Re presentation of the People of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Commons' House of Parliament." BITUMINOUS COAL.—An immense fossil tree, supposed to have been, when growing, as much as twelve or fifteen feet in diameter, has been recently discovered embedded in the cliff of Gilsland Spa. Vast blocks of pineal fossil re main, obviously detached from the cliffs above them, infe rentially point out their original situation, and now lie strewed about in the bed of the Irthing, both above and below the shed at the foot of a walk. These fossil remains rest embalmed, as it were, in a shell of the finest coal, in which the outline of the bark is distinctly preserved; whilst the fibrous part of the fossil tree, by some law of pressure and decay, has given place to the presence of sand stone. A few specimens which are found yet retain figures similar to younger branches and shoots of Norway pine, exhibiting the bark in perfect coally matter of the finest quality, demonstrating the pressure of bitumen in pine to the place of its bark, and also proving that the material of coal is chiefly composed of drifted forests of pine, in which all the former traces of a tree are decayed and gone, except the shivery appearances of the compressed bark, which now partly forms the substance of coal. It is so far shown that the material of coal may be attributed to com pressed resinous products belonging to the vegetable kingdom, whether grown in tropical or frigid regions, and that even a low state of combustion is unnecessary to the formation of bi tuminous coal, as shown by the uncommon purity of that in which these fossil remains lie embedded--decay of the woody fibre and pressure being the main agents required.—Carlisle Patriot. OWENISM.—Mr. Owen is lecturing away vigo rously. We see by the Gateshead Observer that the exposi• tion of his "new view" and most Elysian prospects was re• ceived there by about 700 persons with marked attention. Mr. Owen departed for Birmingham to attend a special congress summoned to consider the necessary arrangements for corn mencing immediately practical operations on the land pur• chased at Wretton, in Norfolk. TRACHEOTOMY.—Mr. Holmes was called to at tend a valuable horse which he found labouring under great depression of breathing, accompanied with foaming of the mouth, &c., occasioned by a ball having been forced into the fauces, instead of down the throat, and he appeared to be ra pidly sinking under the severity of his sufferings. After a minute examination, having failed to discover the ball, which he believed to be at the origin of the trachea and cesophagus, and not being able to introduce the probang with safety from the irritable action going on, Mr. Holmes opened the trachea, and inserted a tube, through which the horse breathed without difficulty. A short interval having elapsed, he introduced the probang into the throat, but met with great obstruction at the top of the cesophagus. Several unsuccessful attempts were made to remove the ball, in which he at last succeeded ; and after waiting some time, he bled him freely and administered an aperient. The symptoms continuing very alarming, and the pulse at 100, he repeated the bleeding, and gave doses of opium and digitalis every three hours. This produced an astonishing effect in allaying the irritation:under which the poor animal had suffered so long ; and at the expiration of eighteen hours all the dangerous symptoms had disappeared, the horse gradually recovered the wound' quickly healed, and he is now as fresh and vigorous as ever he was.—Gateshead Observer. The complaints against the exorbitant charges on the London and Birmingham line, the total disregard of re gulations as to the convenience of passengers, and the fre quent instances of impertinence in the Company's servants, are daily increasing.— Warwick Advertiser. PRECURSOR SOCIETY.—We perceive, from a let ter in the Irish papers, that Mr. O'Connell has proposed a new constitution for the " Precursor Society." Formerly, every man who became a member of that Association pledged himself to agitate for a Repeal of the Union, provided the for midable list of grievances put forward were not all redressed during next Session. As this was more than could be ex pected from the most combined and vigorous movement on the part of the people, it was, of course, tantamount to an imme diate declaration in favour of Repeal, and necessarily excluded all who were opposed to such an alternative. This error Mr. O'Connell has now discovered ; and in order that the Society may embrace, if possible, the whole Liberal strength of the country, he has resolved to sink for the present his favourite question of Repeal. In this, we think, he has acted wisely. His object is to make one grand experiment, in order to ascer tain whether "justice to Ireland" can, uncle! any circum stances, be obtained from the United Parliament; and how could this question be fairly tried unless all shades of Re formers, Repealers and Anti- Repealers, were united in urging the demand? In three weeks Mr. O'Connell is again to be at work in Dublin ; and we have no doubt that, with his emi nent qualities as a leader, a union will be formed amongst Irishmen, the moral influence of which will, if wisely directed, be irresistible. —Scotsman. The (Cork) Southern Reporter re-echoing Mr. O'Connell's complaining cry of a want of sympathy towards the Irish in the great majority of Englishmen falls foul of old England, calling her people apathetic, selfish, ungrateful ; and laying to their charge jealousy, hostility, and, worse than all, accusing us (not the " Irish chiefs") with the abandonment of the Appropriation principle. We copy a few of the compli ments presented from Cork, not for comment, but curiosity's sake :—" It is from England that formidable opposition is to be expected. Of Tory enmity we could hope for no relaxa tion, for the principle that cements the party is hatred to Ireland—from the English Radicals we can look for no assist ance, for justice to Ireland involves equality with themselves. Hence the singular coalition that has taken place between the Tory and Radical Press in their opinions in reference to this country. Because Lord John Russell has offended the English Radicals, by his puerile declaration of hostility against the Bal lot, which was surpassed by the Duke of Wellington's cele brated avowal only in the rapidity and importance of the results it produced, Iris h interests are, therefore, to be thrown over board," &c. &c. " The Appropriation principle would have b een a glorious feature in any tithe arrangement, if it could have been carried and made immediately applicable in its operation ; but who were the parties that practically defeated this principle ? The Radicals of England. Where w ere the y in the hour of trial, when the elections were going on? What became of their boasted power in effectually advancing their own opinions ? Where was there sympathy for Ireland ? We sent a large majority for the Appropriation clause. England retu rne d a l arger majority against it, and yet O'Connell is to b e ma li gned for the imputed temporary abandonment of the principle by the very parties who were either directly or indirectly instrumental in its defeat. Selfishness is the passion which gives an im pulse to human exertion, and leads thereby to wealth and distinction ; but it often carries with it the sin of ingratitude. Selfishness is one of the characteristics of England. From this feeling has Ireland been abandoned. While we were fighting England's battles we were cheered on in the contest, whether the struggle was in the field or in the Senate ; but when the victory was won, Ireland and her rights were for gotten. Our representatives carried England's Reform and Municipal Acts; —they supported every measure tending to the enlargement of her rights or to the extension of her pro sperity ; and yet see the return we have received. English apathy has turned into almost active hostility. Our own exertions are ridiculed, and O'Connell, because he happens to repreient the feelings and opinion s o f t h e Irish nation, as much by the Rad , cal as the Tory Press, 1,-;to,ith standing the services he has rendered to their cause by his able advocacy of their principles." CRIMINAL COURT-MONDAY. William Beardworth, alias Bamford, aged 27, of gentle.. manly appearance, was indicted for a misdemeanour. The prisoner induced the prosecutor, Mr. Woods, a clothier and tailor, residing in Howland-street, Fitzroy-square, to make him some clothes, which amounted to 341. 16s. 6d., for which he gave a check on the Northern and Central Bank. It turned out, however, that there was no such bank in exis tence. The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. Mr. C. Jones applied to the Court to appoint Wednesday for the trial of Teuton, one of the parties indicted at the in stance of the Marquis of D3wnshire, for a libel upon the Noble Marquis, and certain members of his family. Mr. C. Phillips opposed the application. The COURT refused to make any order on the subject. Mr. Clarkson complained of the manner in which Magis strates' clerks acted in reference to the transmission of deposi tions. In a case in which he was concerned, and the circum stances connected with which occurred on the 4th of October, the depositions were not returned until Saturday last. Mr. Clarke, the clerk of arraigns, said he believed the de lay arose from the small sum "which the Magistrates' clerks had for making copies of depositions—namely, three halfpence for every ninety words. gr. Clarkson thought that, at all events, the Home Office ought to be informed on the subject. The RECORDER said he had no objection to this, and it is unthrsood that the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment will receive a letter on the subject. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Thomas Portsmouth and Ann Portsmouth, his wife, resid ing at 26, Wells-street, Oxford-street, were yesterday brought here by Sergeant Pocock, of the F division, charged with rob bing their employers. Mr. Henry Rice, 39, Jermyn-street, St. James's, stated that the prisoners were in his service for three years and had charge of his house and offices. They lived in the house and were paid 701. ay ear as wages. On Thursday last, on his return from his country-house, he found that they had both absconded, and on the following day he received the letter produced, in the handwriting of the male prisoner, in which were enclosed a number of pawnbroker's duplicates for silver spoons and forks, with bed curtains and other bed furniture, which were safe on his leaving home. • The prisoners were identified by Thomas Driscol, shopman to Mr. Fleming, pawnbroker, of Upper John-street, Golden square, and by Charles Hillier, shopman to Mr. Rochford, pawnbroker, of Brewer-street, Golden-square, as being the same who had pledged the property produced between Sep tember and the present month. The prisoners were fully committed for trial. HA7'TON-GARDEN. Yesterday Dennis Don;van, a sullen-looking fellow, was brought to this office in the custody of Inspector Penny, of the G division, charged before Mr. ROGERS with an attempt to murder Catherine Donovan, his wife, whose life is des paired of. Inspector Penny, on Saturday night last, about twelve o'clock, was at the station-house, when he received information that a woman had been murdered by her hus band at a house situated in Bowling-street, Cler kenwell. He proceeded thither and found the neighbourhood in a state of excitement, and on entering the first floor he dis covered a woman lying on the floor, saturated with blood, and apparently dead. On making inquiries he was informed that her husband bad attacked her with an axe (now produced, which was covered with blood and a quantity of human hair), and he had absconded. Witness examined her head, which exhibited several dreadful wounds ; her arm was nearly cut through, and broken in two places, and her person altogether presented a shocking spectacle. She faintly said, "My hus band did it with an axe." The Inspector added that the par ties had been married five years, and had two children. Numerous witnesses were present, but they were not ex amined. Mr. ROGERS asked the prisoner what he had to say. Prisoner (coolly )—I work for Messrs. Cubit, in Gray's Inn road, and when I came to my dinner I found her blind drunk, and on my return to work the men said it was a shame. Mr. ROGERS —Come to the point. Why did you attack her with such a deadly weapon ?—Prisoner—l will tell you if you will allow me. Mr. ROGERS remanded him, and ordered Inspector Penny to inquire as to her condition, and daily report to him her state. The prisoner was then taken from the bar. QUEEN- S Q UA RE. William Burt, a young man following the business of a wire -worker, was yesterday charged with obstructing the guard in front of Buckingham Palace. It appeared from the evidence that the defendant had at different times been afflicted with insanity, and had undergone nine or ten months' confinement in an asylum, which he had left about three years since, being considered in a rational state. He did not betray any particular return of the malady until Saturday morning, when he violently assaulted his mo ther and then ran out of the place. He returned again yester day morning, and, after having taken off his coat, waistcoat, shoes, and stockings, broke all the furniture, locked his mo ther out in a yard, and made the best of his way to the Palace, where, rushing among the military who were relieving guard, he declared that he was troubled with a devil and had been crucified. He was then taken into custody. The poor fellow when before the Magistrates declared that he had been crucified, and pulled up his trowsers to show the marks, Mr. BURRELL directed the constables to take him to the workhouse of St. George's, Hanover-square, in order that he might be examined and passed to an asylum. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday John Goodwin, John Calder, Charles Price, Godfrey Calder, Joseph Dent, and John Tonikins were placed at the bar, before Messrs. GROVE and CODD, charged with causing a riot and assaulting the police. After hearing evidence, Mr. GROVE said that a very great outrage had been committed, and if the case were sent to the sessions he had no doubt but that Goodwin would be impri soned two years. He hoped that the situation they had placed themselves in would be a warning to them. In that impres sion the Bench would deal summarily with the case. Goodwin was fined 603., or three months' imprisonment. John Calder and Charles Price were fined 20s. each. God frey Calder, as he admitted his offence, and as in rescuing his brother the Magistrate thought there was some excuse, was fined l s., and the other two were also fined Is. each and discharged. THAMES- OFFICE. Hendrick Harrizlaus, a seaman belonging to the Batavier Dutch steam-ship, was charged with smuggling slbs. of to bacco and cigars and a bottle of Hollands gin on the river. It appeared from the evidence of Bartlett, a Thames police constable, that he was rowing down the river in his own wherry when he was hailed by the prisoner, who called out sin very good English " Sculler ahoy." Bartlett seeing the prisoner with a bundle in his hand standing on a barge alongside the Batavier immediately suspected that he was about to run some contraband goods, and took the Dutchman, who said he wanted to be landed at Bermondsey, into his boat. On get ting him fairly afloat he asked him what he bad in the bundle, and the prisoner, not suspecting that Bartlett was an officer, unhesitatingly replied that it was " tabak." The officer, in stead of rowing him to Bermondsey, conveyed him to the Thames police-office, and besides several packages of foreign manufactured tobacco of which the bundle consisted, he found some more concealed about his person and a quarter of a pound of cigars under his clothes. Mr. James Evans, chief surveyor of Thames police, said he re-seized the tobacco, and further searched the prisoner on his being introduced to him, and in his pocket he found a flat stone bottle of Hollands gin. The prisoner said he gave Is. a pound for the tobacco and cigars in Holland, and brought it here for sale in the Batavier, and should have obtained 2s. 6d. per pound for it. Mr. GREENWOOD—A very profitable traffic. The prisoner said it was all true. The Schiedam be in tended to drink ashore. Mr. GREENWOOD said there was a good deal of smuggling going en among the Dutch seamen, and there was no end to it on board the Batavier. He sentenced the prisoner to pay 40s. to the Queen, and ordered the tobacco to be sent to the Custom House. Yesterday a Coroner's inquest was held at the Royal Mail, Upper-street, Islington, on the body of Joseph Perry, aged nine years, who was killed under circumstances of a most appalling nature. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was the son of lab During persons residing in the Hol. loway-road. On Wednesday evening last, between five and six o'clock, he was sent by his parents on an errand, and in going along the Liverpool road he got up behind a waggon, without the knowledge of the waggoner, when, by some ac cident, his foot caught the spokes of the wheel, and before he could give any alarm he was drawn between the wheel and the waggon. The waggoner immediately stopped ; but it was not until after the lapse of a few minutes that the body of the deceased was discovered, when it was found entangled round the axletree, mangled in a dreadful manner, and the wheel was obliged to be taken off before the remains of the un . fortunate child could be.. got out, and every bone in his body was broken. No blame whatever was attributable to the wag goner. Verdict—" Accidental death." SUDDEN DEATH.—On Sunday morning a young man named Scanlan w en t t o th e h ou s e , N o . 20, Baker street, Portman-square, to see his mother, who for some time past has been employed, in the absence of the family, to take care of the premises ; after knocking for some time, and receiving no answer, he gained admittance by the next door, and on enter ing the bedroom on the first floor he beheld his parent lying on the floor, quite dead ; a surgeon who examined the body gave it as his opinion that she had died of apoplexy, and that life had been some hours extinct. The deceased was upwards of 60 years of age. On Saturday night, as Miss Symonds, eldest daughter of John Symonds, Esq., of Green Bank, Falmouth, who had been spending the evening with some friends, was returning to her father's house, attended by a man servant, and when she had nearly reached the gate, some miscreants caught hold of her dress, which terrified her to such a degree, that on entering the house she became seriously ill, and con tinued so until Tuesday _morning, when she expired from th e effects of the fright. We do not attempt to describe the feel ings of the' parents, who have thus wantonly and cruelly been deprived of a lovely and acc d daughter, but they triu , t be cnvi a)le in eflmparis ,, li u,th tli.,si of the wretches t:, whose scandalous misconduct this melancholy affliction has b een ow ing.—Cornwall Gazette. COMPARISON OF FOREIGN GRAB WITH THE ENGLISH MARKET. The highest quotation of white wheat wheat of the first quality at Hamburgh is 160 rixdollars current the last, which answers to 49a. 2d. the quarter, and the highest quotation of red wheat of the first quality is 155 rixdollars current the last, which answers to 475. Bd. the quarter ; and therefore the mean price at Hamburgh of white and red wheat together is 48s. sd. the quarter. The highest quotation of white wheat of the first quality in London is 765. the quarter; and the highest quotation of red wheat of the first quality is 725. the quarter ; and therefore the mean price in London of white and red wheat together is 745. the quarter. It appears, therefore, that wheat is 52i per cent. dearer in London than at Ham burgh, and that with the sum of 3/. 14s. a man may buy 121 bushels of wheat at Hamburgh, whereas with the same sum he can buy only 8 bushels in Lo,clon. The highest quotation of Zealand white wheat of the first quality at Amsterdam is 332 florins the last, which equals 535. 6d. the quarter, and the mean price of wheat in London being 745. the quarter, it follows that wheat is 391 per cent. dearer' in London than at Amsterdam. The highest quotation of white wheat of the first quality at Berlin is 3 rixdollars 3 groschen the scheffel, which answeisto 50s. 9d. the quarter, and the highest quotation of whi=te wheat of the first quality in London being 765. the quarter;. the difference is 494 per cent that wheat is dearer in London , than at Berlin. The highest quotation of read wheat of the first quality at Stettin is 54 dollars the wispel of 24 scheffels, which is equi valent to 36a. 10d. the quarter, and the highest quotation of red wheat in London being 725. the quarter, it follows that wheat is 95} per cent. dearer in London than at Stettin, and that with the sum of 31. 12s. a man may buy 15a bushels of wheat at Stettin, whereas with the same sum he can buy only bushels in London. The mean or average of the prices of wheat of the first qua lity at Hamburgh, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Stettin is 475. 4d. the quarter, and the mean price of wheat of the first quality in London being 745. the quarter, the difference is 561 per cent. that the mean price of London exceeds the mean price of the four above-mentioned places. SUSPECTED LOSS OF ANOTHER STEAM -BOA.T• —From the Edinburgh papers we much fear that the Northern Yacht steam ship, which sailed from Newcastle for Leith on. the morning of Thursday week, and ought in due course to have arrived at the. latterplace the same evening, has foundered or otherwise been destroyed at sea, and all on board perished. She is reported to have had thirty passengers on board. The Sunderland Herald says—" We regret to have to announce' that serious apprehensions are entertained for the safety of this vessel ; she left the Tyne for Leith on Thursday, the llth instant, between 9 and 10 o'clock in the morning, and called off North Sunderland to land a passenger, in the after noon of the same day; and immediately after the dreadful gale came on, the melancholy and disastrous effects of which we have elsewhere noticed. Since that time she has not been seen or heard of. We understand that there were from eight to ten passengers on board, in addition to the crew, which consisted of twelve men, and the Stewardess. The Yacht was not deeply laden ; her cargo consisting principally of furniture and light goods."--( Further Particulars from the Scotsman). —From the inquiries we have made we learn that the Northern Yacht was seen by the lighthouse-keeper on the Ferne I-lands to pass on Thursday afternoon at four o'clockr but have not heard that she was seen by any vessel on any pa rr of her course. Two Newcastle steamers, which sailed sub sequently, have arrived at Leith, without having- obtained any news regarding her except the particulars here detailed . One of them belonging to the same Company examined th e coast and made every inquiry, but nothing further had trans. - pired up to last night ( Friday). Various contradictory re ports, however, arc circulating on the subject. The master of a sloop laden with herrings from Shetland, states that be' saw a steamer and four or five other vessels labouring . u nder . the violent gale of Thursday week while he was crossing the Pentland Frith, and that shortly after the whole di sa ppeared. Another account bears that cries were heard by the inhab itants of the Bass Rock from persons in a vessel in distress; a third, that part of a wreck was seen near the Ferne Islands the day before yesterday ; but the arrival of a steamer yesterday morning from Berwick brings no accounts whatever regarding the unfortunate vessel. It was currently stated last night alto that intelligence had been received that, after being driven about at sea for several days, she had at length put into Scar' borough Bay, but we have not been able to trace the r e p ort to any satisfactory source. Under these circumstances it were idle to speculate farther as to her probable fate. From the length of time, however, that has now expired since her dal of sailing, the worst may be apprehended. MANCHESTER BOROUGH REVISION. — ' SCr months ago a knot of Tories originated in this town a eef rough Association, which had for its object the getting We borough into the hands of the Tories ; which object was to be gained by the dissemination of Tory notions, and especially by activity in the Registration Courts. Of course our readers. will be prepared for corresponding results in the reg istratiol_l : just closed. First, as to the objections, it appears tha t, of 50 Tories objected to, 47 have been struck off ; while, of 43 Re formers objected to, only 28 have been struck off. This dis poses pretty clearly of the point as to the frivolous character of the objections, and is tolerably significant as to the party excelling in making such objections. The Tories' loss, then, on the objections alone, is nineteen ; but, on referring to the column of claims, it will be seen that only five have been sub stantiated by Tories, while the Reformers have added twenty two to their numbers, making a further gain of seventeen to the Reformers, whose total gain in the borough, on this re tration and revision, is 36 votes, notwithstanding all the boors of of the Tory " Manchester Borough Manchester Guardian. PERILS OF SPORTING.—A worthy tradesman of Southampton thinking that he bad as much right to spoof without a license as he had to hunt or fish, took a neighbobui with him and sallied forth to the fields on the 3d of t is A.ssociation."-- month, without regarding on whose fields they were ; but o t .. their utter dismay they had not proceeded far before ab b la keeper stepped up to them and demanded their authority ; t j having none to g itive but their impudence, the keep er immeo.l _ ately seized one of them by his " head and shoulders ;" other, who had smoked the last cigar that he had brought W° him, but had got plenty more at home, scampere d off over hedges, ditches, gates, and stiles, and saved himse lf, but left hiss friend to his fate ; and sad was that fate; he w as taken as prisoner a distance of five miles before two Magistrates, `fie fined five pounds and some considerable expenses. s hould advise our friend, as the season has no w arrived,..... hang up hi; gun, and take to his old sport —hunting . Hampshire Independent. We are glad to hear that the wages of the weavers in this city have been advanced upon nearly all fabrics. T h .! advancement we understand amounts to about 15 per 014 upon the price paid twelve months ago ; and we are equally pleased to hear there that there is plenty of work.—Carlin Journal. The tobacconists of Dublin have advanced the w holes. i e z price of that article 4d. per lb., and snuff 6d., the price of " the raw material" having advanced 50 per cent' consequence of an unprecedented failure in the American 01),P; The raising of the Telernaque has failed, at least 1 % the present. On Wednesday she was completely fur'loosee from her bed, and on the point of being brought to the 0 face, when one of the chains broke, and she settled dolls again. In consequence of this accident the company, 6st Havre Paper states, has decided to postpone all further tempts till the spring. GREAT ADVANTAGE TO LARGE CONSUMERS s' TEA. TEAS at WHOLESALE PRICES, in quantities n°: less than one pou n d, i n tin cases of 61bs. net, or small chests ° 121bs. and upwards. clve i ' To afford every facility to large consumers, to whom th is a • tisement is addressed, not less than one pound of Tea or Coffee,b, made at this establishment, as the small profits will not admit °f ' usual division of quantities made by retail houses. TEA' G. T. MANSELL and CO., WHOLESALE DEALERS, 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside. _.-----' PATENT LEVER WATCHES' Price, at T. COX SAVORY'S, 47, Cornhill, Dodo"- SILVER CASES. 16 6 With double-bottom cases ..• £ 6 6 With hunting cases GOLD CASES. , l o 0 Yv• Size for ladies, with elegant gold dial 12 , ** Size for gentlemen, with enamel dial *** hich This celebrated construction (the most accurate on 11 ;, h the watch can be made) is now offered at the above price, with is latest improvements, i. e., the detached escapement, jewel ' jo in% four holes, capped, hand to mark the seconds, and maint 3 power to continue going while winding up. 'F. COX SAVORY, Working Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Corn London (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street BIRTHS. On On the 20th inst., at daughter. va of On the 17th inst., the wife of Mr. William Edward Fra n n 'lna Lady John Russell, °f Stratford-green, Essex, and Fenchurch-streetof twins,a s°- , daughter. , , Nor - On the 19th inst., in Upper Norton-street, Mrs. Will' a ' ris, of a daughter. treet• On the 19th inst., the lady of William Nevill, of Huotellar . Brunswick-square, of a daughter, who survived only a feW ii e i.: Of At Burghley, on the 20th inst., the Marchioness of E'Le' a son. Tho u ' On the 15th inst., at Eastmascals, Sussex, the lady of Herbert Noyes, Esq., of a son. of Vi lliers On the 22d inst., in Grosvenor-street, the Dent, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. Gurnell• On the lith inst., at Dartford, Kent, Mr. Thomas o r igff , fourth son of the late Mr. John Gurnell, of Scawby• near mono: Lincolnshire, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. S. gain rt or of Dartford ; at the same time and place, Mr. Henry Solorl)...'s, Shorn, near Gravesend, to Catherir.e, second daught er of Air Hammond. e John' On the 18th inst., at Cheriton Church, Captain Geo r g ston e, stone, eldest son of the late Lieutenant-General William Jonoa'ogest Royal Engineers, of Newington, Kent, to Elizabeth , Y iceot daughter of the l a t e H ug h Hammersley, Esq., of Sandgai e , per te en 0 On the 20th inst., at St. John's, Hackney , HenryilSora fton, ger, third son of Samuel Berger, Esq., of Upper gacka e Y . Caroline Elizabeth, eldest daughter of I. Gillham, Esq'' as Fe On the 20th inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Thor, he late rett Taylor, Esq., of Bristol, to Sarah, second (laughter 0 1 '" William Lucas, Esq., of Stroud green DIED. klenburgh-scl Ore , On the 19th in5tinf..................„ Mrs. Elizabeth Payne, aged 60. -----= - - °' ------;,1,;, coo London : I}...nrai and Published b) .7‘l URDU YOu n , 8 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, I of Middlesex . — Tuesday, October 23, 1638.